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Rights group reveals new U.S. abuses in Afghanistan
Human Rights Watch said that it discovered new evidence that three more detainees have died in U.S. custody in Afghanistan. The New York-based group also accused the Bush administration of "dragging its feet" on investigations that might have prevented the abuses of Iraqi detainees. It said in an open letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that the United States is continuing to fail to probe the abuses or prosecute the guilty, noting that the U.S.-run jails in Afghanistan aren't operating according to the rule of law. Human Rights Watch also demanded the U.S. army to release an internal report on its Afghan detention facilities, which U.S. authorities promised to release several months ago.Posted by: Fred 2004-12-13 |
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